Tyler Cahoon Trucking LLC

Tyler Cahoon Trucking LLC, a small-business limited liability company based in Manhattan, Montana, provides heavy equipment transportation, log trucking, and equipment operations for forest fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively under set-aside authority — all nine awards in the source carry total small business designations — competing on multiple-award IDIQs and delivery orders across Forest Service regions and the National Interagency Fire Center.

The vendor's customer base is entirely within USDA Forest Service and does not diversify across agencies. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 100% of award count and combined potential value coverage, representing five awards valued at $1.8 million. Those five awards consist of four indefinite-delivery contracts (three $250,000 IDCs and one $500,000 IDC) awarded between May 2022 and February 2026, all structured as total small business multiple-award Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The four regional Forest Service offices — Region 1 (Northern), Region 2 (Rocky Mountain), Region 3 (Southwestern), and Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) — each hold one delivery order against regional or fire management IDCs, ranging from $36,620 to $153,562.87. A representative example is the $153,562.87 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Southwestern Region on August 3, 2022, for log truck services supporting the Calf Canyon project in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The August 6, 2026 delivery order from Region 1 for $36,620 in heavy equipment and transportation services carries an ultimate completion date of August 14, 2026, indicating active near-term work.

The vendor's NAICS footprint is tightly concentrated in Support Activities for Forestry (9 awards), with all work falling under the Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC. Activity shows intermittent ordering across a four-year period — two awards in 2022, a gap through 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and four in 2026 — suggesting seasonal or incident-driven procurement patterns typical of fire suppression contracting. Combined potential value across all awards is $2.1 million, with only $332 thousand obligated to date (16% of potential value), reflecting the structure of IDIQs and standing agreements that bill against task orders as incidents occur. The vendor holds no sub-awards and does not subcontract to other parties; all nine awards represent direct prime performance.

Our company has been working in the logging and fire suppression industry since 2016. Experienced heavy equipment operator. Equipment includes, skidder with grapple and blade; skidgine with detachable tank. Self loading logging truck.